Inner Prophet, Outer Gate

Neville's Inner Vision

The outer scene of persecution in Jeremiah 20:1-2 is a vivid inner allegory. Pashur represents the hardened, external voice of authority in your consciousness—fear, doubt, and the censor that says you must silence your truth. The stocks symbolize limiting beliefs that pin your awareness to a familiar gate, the edge where personal impulse attaches to habit. Jeremiah, the true prophet within you, speaks truth to power and stirs resistance in the mind that would keep you confined to old self-images. The house of the LORD is not a temple in space but your inner sanctuary of awareness where the I AM resides. When you identify with that I AM, the persecutor loses its grip; when you claim your authority as the speaker and seer of your life, the inner stocks dissolve. Thus, the scene teaches that freedom comes not from changing outer circumstances but from embodying and feeling the reality of your I AM—the immutable observer behind all scenes.